Re: Kwort 2.4.1 RC3
Sebastian Reisse
my tests on the real machin revealed the following:
> * Add iptables (done)
OK
> * Fix mplayer setup (done)
Ok
> * Rollback lilo configuration utility (done)
Ok, but /etc/lilo.conf missing
> * Networking setup (done. Thanks for all the testing)
Ok
> * Flash & Java plugins in the browser (done)
NOT available, type "about:plugins" in Firefox and you'll seee there are
no plugins installed, also java plugin and flash plugin test on websites
requiring those plugins failed
> * bridge-utils & mkinitrd (included in more - not installed, but
> included in the iso)
OK
I also saw you ship scim-anthy in more, but you are missing anthy!
Therefore scim-anthy is useless...
> * Save and restore alsa volumes (done)
Doesn't work yet! As it gives an error at showtdown saying "saving
volume... failed", However when manually run alsactl store it seems that
the system will restore the settings automatically on startup, so you
just need to check why it is not saving the current value.
> * Skel setup for for gigolo (No need, as it is already done by rc.2345)
Still gnome-mount error!
> * Fix initrd installer so extra ttys are respawned (done)
OK
> * Fix fstab for floppy disks and not recognized fs in the installer (done)
Not quite ok, since floppy could not mounted using plugdev, but
switching to manual method by uncommenting the fd0 entry in fstab and
replace mount option "owner" with "users" it worked.
> * Re-compile audacious without sse2 (weird, I have an AMD Quadcore
> and it works like charm) support so it works good on all AMD machines
> (done)
Still seqfaults with "invalid machine instruction" on mp3 playback, you
really recompiled it without sse2 support?
> * Include libgphoto2 + gphoto2 (done)
Works, but only as root, we need to create a group "camera" in order to
allow the user access to usb port connected camera...
We may get the idea by checking how this is done in Zenwalk.
> * Fix hostname setup!!!!! (TRULY IMPORTANT) (done)
Not quite working, hostname is applied, but not domainname, old default
entry is not deleted from /etc/hosts
> * Rollback colors in the installation (to be done)
Ok
Suspend now works from xfce menu, great! System also resumes properly
from hibernation.
lilo fb resolution now works
existing xfs partition can now be included in fstab with filesystem set
to "auto", well done!
Big improvement, but still some work to to until final release.
Best regards,
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David B. Cortarello
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Sebastian Reisse
<sebastian...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
>> * Flash & Java plugins in the browser (done)
>
> NOT available, type "about:plugins" in Firefox and you'll seee there are
> no plugins installed, also java plugin and flash plugin test on websites
> requiring those plugins failed
Just fixed it
>> * Save and restore alsa volumes (done)
>
> Doesn't work yet! As it gives an error at showtdown saying "saving
> volume... failed", However when manually run alsactl store it seems that
> the system will restore the settings automatically on startup, so you
> just need to check why it is not saving the current value.
So it can't be restored because it isn't being saved... But I can't
see anything wrong in the init scripts. If you can see why it is
failing, just let me know.
>> * Skel setup for for gigolo (No need, as it is already done by rc.2345)
>
> Still gnome-mount error!
A pity, but it looks like I'll have to go by the skel "fix".
It seems that hal has gnome-mount hardcoded (I though they was FREEdesktop).
>> * Fix fstab for floppy disks and not recognized fs in the installer (done)
>
> Not quite ok, since floppy could not mounted using plugdev, but
> switching to manual method by uncommenting the fd0 entry in fstab and
> replace mount option "owner" with "users" it worked.
Fixed
>> * Re-compile audacious without sse2 (weird, I have an AMD Quadcore
>> and it works like charm) support so it works good on all AMD machines
>> (done)
>
> Still seqfaults with "invalid machine instruction" on mp3 playback, you
> really recompiled it without sse2 support?
Nevermind, I just saw the audacious BUILDER script (it is in the iso
if you want to see it too), I putted --disable-sse2--enable-neon
(Yeap, the space just screwed things up :-P)
I've just recompiled fixing it.
But this is actually a bug in audacious-plugins, because if I say to
it, to do i486 cross compiling, it shouldn't build with sse2 support.
>> * Include libgphoto2 + gphoto2 (done)
>
> Works, but only as root, we need to create a group "camera" in order to
> allow the user access to usb port connected camera...
> We may get the idea by checking how this is done in Zenwalk.
I've never used this, I only included this stuff because you asked me to do.
I have no idea how it works and I don't have a gphoto2 camera.
So light me on this one, or I'll have to take it out. :-P
>> * Fix hostname setup!!!!! (TRULY IMPORTANT) (done)
>
> Not quite working, hostname is applied, but not domainname, old default
> entry is not deleted from /etc/hosts
Yeap, fixed it this early morning.
>
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Sebastian Reisse
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>>> * Skel setup for for gigolo (No need, as it is already done by
>>> rc..2345)
>>
>> Still gnome-mount error!
>
> A pity, but it looks like I'll have to go by the skel "fix".
> It seems that hal has gnome-mount hardcoded (I though they was
> FREEdesktop)..
Do we really need gigolo?? I am still not shure why this should be useful?
>> Still seqfaults with "invalid machine instruction" on mp3 playback, you
>> really recompiled it without sse2 support?
>
> Nevermind, I just saw the audacious BUILDER script (it is in the iso
> if you want to see it too), I putted --disable-sse2--enable-neon
> (Yeap, the space just screwed things up :-P)
> I've just recompiled fixing it.
> But this is actually a bug in audacious-plugins, because if I say to
> it, to do i486 cross compiling, it shouldn't build with sse2 support.
Ah, that's why. Well if it seqfaults on my test machine with invalid
machine instruction it is very likely that sse2 hasn't been disabled.
Thanks for fixing.
>>> * Include libgphoto2 + gphoto2 (done)
>>
>> Works, but only as root, we need to create a group "camera" in order to
>> allow the user access to usb port connected camera...
>> We may get the idea by checking how this is done in Zenwalk.
>
> I've never used this, I only included this stuff because you asked me to
> do..
> I have no idea how it works and I don't have a gphoto2 camera.
> So light me on this one, or I'll have to take it out. :-P
Well I think it's just a modification on udev rules or even simpier
creating a group camera and put the user in it. I thinks no big deal, so
please leave (lib)gphoto2 in the iso (you can move it to "more" so it
doesn't get autoinstalled if you like)
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BTW: How did you get hibernation via XFCE power manager working?
in RC2 it did not worked, but I was supprised to see it working in RC3!
Now I wonder what exactly you have changed, I need to know so that I can
help myself if I encounter the same problem next time. ;)
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P.S. I also let you know, this is no bug, but I still got no Sound working
on RC3. I have a fortemedia card and it's used to work but I have to mute
"raw" output in alsa mixer in order to get sound out of this card. However
in the mixercontrols I could not find this option. It looks like for the
same hardware the mixercontrols are always different depending on which
alsa version you using. In RC2 it also took me quite some time to get
sound working, but I don't remember exactly what I changed to get it
working. I need to investigate more on this. It's stange since the first
time I start the volume control plugin in xfce it did not show any mixer
controls, I had to manually add controls to the mixer applet...
BR,
Sebastian Reisse
regarding saving the volume levels I figured out, that it fails because
you did not give absolute path to alsactl.
Please modify your script to give absolute path /usr/sbin/alsactl in rc.06
and rc.2345
If that doesn't works then you could also obmit the -f /etc/asound.state
option in rc.06
It fixed the problems on my test machine.
Br,
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Sebastian Reisse
>>> * Include libgphoto2 + gphoto2 (done)
>>
>> Works, but only as root, we need to create a group "camera" in order to
>> allow the user access to usb port connected camera...
>> We may get the idea by checking how this is done in Zenwalk.
>
> I've never used this, I only included this stuff because you asked me to
> do..
> I have no idea how it works and I don't have a gphoto2 camera.
> So light me on this one, or I'll have to take it out. :-P
Please have a look at this document:
http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html
It describes several ways to set permissions for gphoto2 supported usb
devices.
I think the udev approach is the best and then adding the user to plugdev
group.
Br,
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David B. Cortarello
Yeap, I figure that out yesterday night, I've already re-packaged
the kwort-init-scripts with this fix.
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Sebastian Reisse
>>> * Include libgphoto2 + gphoto2 (done)
>> Works, but only as root, we need to create a group "camera" in order to
>> allow the user access to usb port connected camera...
>> We may get the idea by checking how this is done in Zenwalk.
>
> I've never used this, I only included this stuff because you asked me to do..
> I have no idea how it works and I don't have a gphoto2 camera.
> So light me on this one, or I'll have to take it out. :-P
>
With the help of this HowTo [1] I was able to get gphoto2 working under
an non-root user as well. I created a udev rule as described and put it
under /etc/udev/rules.d after restarting the system, any user who is in
the group "plugdev" can access camera devices via gphoto2.
Please find attached udev rule. You just have to put that into
/etc/udev/rules.d and set permission to be 644 and group and owner to be
root, that's all then it should working and Kwort has digicam support. ;)
Best regards,
[1] http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html
Sebastian Reisse
Kwort 2.4.1 comes without pciutils and without usbutils, to my mind
those tools are essential, especially if you need to check which chipset
a device has, which IRQ it is using etc. for trouble shooting hardware
issues and for writing/confirming udev rules. Could you consider to
include this, it are not really big packages, only a fee KB.
Thanks!
David B. Cortarello
Btw, I fixed the gigolo issue the other days. So including this last
thing, everything should be ready for a last release candidate... And
from there, if everything goes right, for final release.
Thanks.
Bye!
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Sebastian Reisse
<sebastian...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>>>> * Include libgphoto2 + gphoto2 (done)
>>> Works, but only as root, we need to create a group "camera" in order to
>>> allow the user access to usb port connected camera...
>>> We may get the idea by checking how this is done in Zenwalk.
>>
>> I've never used this, I only included this stuff because you asked me to do..
>> I have no idea how it works and I don't have a gphoto2 camera.
>> So light me on this one, or I'll have to take it out. :-P
>>
>
> With the help of this HowTo [1] I was able to get gphoto2 working under
> an non-root user as well. I created a udev rule as described and put it
> under /etc/udev/rules.d after restarting the system, any user who is in
> the group "plugdev" can access camera devices via gphoto2.
>
> Please find attached udev rule. You just have to put that into
> /etc/udev/rules.d and set permission to be 644 and group and owner to be
> root, that's all then it should working and Kwort has digicam support. ;)
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> [1] http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html
>
>
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David B. Cortarello
pciutils + usbutils + pcmciautils (/sbin/lspci, /sbin/lsusb,
/sbin/lspcmcia) are included in the iso and installed with the base
system...
Please check it again since those are in the iso in the "base" serie.
Bye.
Sebastian Reisse
> What?
> pciutils + usbutils + pcmciautils (/sbin/lspci, /sbin/lsusb,
> /sbin/lspcmcia) are included in the iso and installed with the base
> system...
> Please check it again since those are in the iso in the "base" serie.
It was my fault (I'm getting tired today... ;-/) I should had su'ed to
root before since sbin is not in the path of an ordinary user...
Sorry for that. ;)
Sebastian Reisse
> Great work Sebastian,
> Btw, I fixed the gigolo issue the other days. So including this last
> thing, everything should be ready for a last release candidate... And
> from there, if everything goes right, for final release.
Cool, well done! So what are the open issues left to test?
- lilo.conf issue
- alsactl store|reload issue
- gigolo issue
- gphoto2 permission issue (I know that works now ;))
- java und flash browser plugin issue
- audacious seqfault (AMD sse2) issue
Do I miss something?
Br,
David B. Cortarello
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sebastian Reisse
<sebastian...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>> Great work Sebastian,
>> Btw, I fixed the gigolo issue the other days. So including this last
>> thing, everything should be ready for a last release candidate... And
>> from there, if everything goes right, for final release.
>
> Cool, well done! So what are the open issues left to test?
>
> - lilo.conf issue
Fixed
> - alsactl store|reload issue
Fixed
> - gigolo issue
Fixed
> - gphoto2 permission issue (I know that works now ;))
Fixed
> - java und flash browser plugin issue
Fixed
> - audacious seqfault (AMD sse2) issue
Fixed
> Do I miss something?
I hope none, otherwise it would be your fault (LOL, just kidding :-P)
I'm uploading a rc4 tonight, so if no issues are reported, it would
become final.
Thanks for all the testing and help fixing issues.
>
> Br,
>
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can somebody confirm xfburn hangs after pressing "blank disc" or "burn"
buttons? This ahppens on my system all the time, no matter if there is
an any cdr(w) media inserted in the drive or not.
xfburn needs to be tested on more different machines, if fails, maybe
going back to graveman would be an option...
This is not an issue of cdrw-tools as I can blank and burn on the cli
using cdrecord without any problems...